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DarrylRi
09-14-2004, 01:58 PM
Look what was on display for the press today... for 30 minutes only! Not to be seen again until next year. Read about it in the UK's Motor Cycle News (http://www.motorcyclenews.com/nav?page=motorcyclenews.articles.articleCategory.a rticle&resourceId=1256187&articleCategory=NEWS_NEW-BIKES).
kbasa
09-14-2004, 03:12 PM
Crap. Here comes another big smoking hole in my finances.
chasman
09-14-2004, 03:57 PM
Oh Man!!! My fancy just got tickled big time!


Riding Like the Wind...

CHASMAN
Black '02 K12RS
MarkF
09-14-2004, 04:46 PM
to see the K1200RT and K1200ST

MarkF
gambrinus
09-14-2004, 04:52 PM
If that doesn't give you a raging stiffie, you'd better talk to your doctor about some Viagra!

RW
YB in IN
09-14-2004, 04:59 PM
It looks like an old K-bike on crack!! Put a belly pan on that thing and it will look a K75s with a Bary Bondsesque performance enhancing drug problem. I wonder if this is in reponse for requests for lighter bikes, and shorter bikes. It looks like it's fairly low and light. I bet that it could keep up with any of the Japanese naked bikes. Did anyone out there see this coming? I don't that I'd heard anything about it anywhere.
lorazepam
09-14-2004, 05:02 PM
Why do they have to put such goofy looking headlights on everything? I like the looks except for the soup can lookin headlights.
kbasa
09-14-2004, 05:24 PM
If it carries a full load of horsepower it's gonna put the naked bike market right on its ear.
MarkF
09-14-2004, 08:15 PM
Originally posted by YB in IN
I wonder if this is in reponse for requests for lighter bikes, and shorter bikes. It looks like it's fairly low and light. I bet that it could keep up with any of the Japanese naked bikes.

I think it's obviously in response to Euro stuff - Triumph Speed Triple, Aprilia Tuono, Ducati S4R, and similar stuff from MV Agusto, Laverda and Benelli that we never see here. Remember Europe in BMW's target market. NA just gets the left overs. Heck, even the bike four sell naked bikes in Europe they don't import here.

MarkF
Cliffy777
09-15-2004, 05:49 AM
I am thankful that I won't be seeing one of these up close and personal for a while. (Honey, how much do you think we have in the change jug now?)
Way cool looking to me. I am partial to naked bikes with wierd lookin' headlights. It is prolly too slow for me - after all I have to keep up with the likes of Shelbyville Scooter Gangs....
snowcat
09-16-2004, 12:57 PM
What's going to happen to the original design?
Is this a K or a new species?
I like all bikes including airheads,oilheads and the K.
Will probably like this one too(Kompressor it and I'll love it)
But in my humble opinion think they should have given it a new moniker.
gambrinus
09-16-2004, 01:21 PM
Actions speak louder than words... BMW says the the current K line will continue and the new bikes are an addition... ummm wouldn't bet on it. The use of the "K" is for a very good reason that they'll let us in on when they feel like it.


RW
YB in IN
09-16-2004, 04:26 PM
Originally posted by gambrinus
Actions speak louder than words... BMW says the the current K line will continue and the new bikes are an addition... ummm wouldn't bet on it. The use of the "K" is for a very good reason that they'll let us in on when they feel like it.


RW

Perhpas they have something radically different on the way that will replace the K moniker.
Braddog
09-19-2004, 08:37 PM
Originally posted by KBasa
If it carries a full load of horsepower it's gonna put the naked bike market right on its ear.

But only if they price it in the same ballpark as other Euro naked's like the Tuono.

Otherwise, folks may not bother.
YB in IN
09-19-2004, 11:54 PM
Originally posted by Braddog
But only if they price it in the same ballpark as other Euro naked's like the Tuono.

Otherwise, folks may not bother.

BMW would be wise to try to make this a little more competitive pricewise with their competition. They might be able to break into some markets that they haven't had any luck in yet.
JetDoc
09-20-2004, 09:33 AM
Originally posted by YB in IN
BMW would be wise to try to make this a little more competitive pricewise with their competition. They might be able to break into some markets that they haven't had any luck in yet.

But if it isn't outrageously overpriced, it wouldn't be a BMW! God forbid they should lower their standard of price gouging down to the level of say, Harley-Davidson... Who knows what kind of riffraff that might let in! :brow